Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 11:17:26 +0400 From: dima <_pppp@mail.ru> To: "Gary W. Swearingen" <swear@attbi.com> Cc: doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Another project: rndcontrol Message-ID: <3D8EC006.7040502@mail.ru> References: <3D28AC09.9AD48DF4@FreeBSD.org> <3D8EA8BC.59D0B10C@FreeBSD.org> <01sn019nyi.n01@localhost.localdomain>
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>>I put up a page for this project at >>http://people.freebsd.org/~dougb/randomness.html >> >>Comments or suggestions are welcome. > The page seems to imply that /dev/random outputs (high quality) > pseudo-random numbers while random(4) seems to imply that they are > not pseudo-random. the (hardware) inter-interrupt timings are used to generate data for /dev/random. they will surely be non pseudo-random if set up properly (e.g. if you don't use, say, timer irq to generate random seed ;)) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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